Sentences with phrase «and so forth»

And I sat with the local community for a long time to determine how we were going to do this ordination — what kind of music and what kind of dance and what kind of liturgy — and I was all gung - ho for the fact that they had so many possible ways of incarnating the liturgy through their own African embodiment and rhythms and so forth, but they were absolutely adamant: they wanted Gregorian chant.

Some challenge specific parts of the curriculum (mandatory AIDS education, New York City's distribution of condoms to schoolchildren without the knowledge or consent of the parents, textbooks that propagate anti-Christian doctrines, gym - class dress requirements at odds with the modest dress required of Hindu, Muslim, and other children, «values clarification» classes that teach that there is no objective source of right and wrong, and so forth).

Re: phosphorus in meteorites Any so - called theory about conditions 3.5 billion years ago had better integrate the collision with the planetesimal that gave rise to our Moon and what that means in terms of elements, geological processes, and so forth.

But we are aware of our experiences as by no means punctiform, but rather with internal heres and theres and elsewheres, with betweens and next to's, and so forth.

The technical disciplines taught in universities and seminaries - technical dogmatics, ethics, spirituality, apologetics, missiology, historical theology, and so forth - find their value as they lead to richer biblical interpretation.

Lindsell flatly argues that the Bible «does not contain error of any kind» — that it may be absolutely trusted in all its references to history, cosmology, science and so forth.

or (5)-- and so forth.

He also observed that the Orient was overvalued for its pantheism, its spirituality, its stability, its longevity, its primitivity and so forth».

The whole idea of dogma — timeless, nonhistorical facts about God, Jesus, the church and so forth — had been completely undermined by the study of history.

Even in the general media, scandal stories are typically accompanied by an acknowledgment of the fine work done by most priests in helping the poor, providing shelters and soup kitchens for the homeless, and so forth.

For example, the Catholic God has Jesus growing out of his left fanny cheek and the bible from his right ckeek, and so forth.

After all, they're on the side of charity, not mean - spirited judgment, inclusion, not «fear of the other,» and so forth.

There is evil in the world, and it can not be explained by free will because then God is responsible for giving us free will, and so forth and so on.

Let one such chain contain B, A, C, and B. Continuing the chain in one direction, there is an actual entity F that feels E, there is an actual entity G that is felt by F, there is an actual entity H that feels G, and so forth across the entire universe.

And because the Enlightenment isn't really touched by allegedly deep criticism by Maritain (and other neo-Thomists), T.S. Eliot, and so forth, there's no going back.

The meaning of «and so forth» is to be understood in terms of the concept of ancestral.22

Leaving aside all the other factors - old - fashioned anti-Catholicism, eagerness to discredit a traditional morality most publicly represented by the Catholic Church, and so forth - look at it from a purely journalistic viewpoint: nobody is going to win a Pulitzer Prize for exposing rude things done to a fourteen - year - old boy in the basement bathroom of, say, Second Baptist Church in Indianapolis.

An ancestor is a parent of a parent of a parent, and so forth.

Rather, the «god» documented by the Bible's authors, seems to move from Creator, to Destroyer, to Tribal God, and so forth.

More precisely, the class of nexal sets is defined as follows: A set N of two or more actual entities is a nexal set when it satisfies the following condition: For any two actual entities x and y in N, either (1) x feels or is felt by y, or (2) there is an actual entity a in N such that (a) x feels or is felt by z and (b) a feels or is felt by y. or (3) there are actual entities a and w in N such that (a) x feels or is felt by z and (b) z feels or is felt by w and (c) w feels or is felt by y. or (4) there are actual entities z, w, and v in N such that (a) x feels or is felt by a and (b) a feels or is felt by w and (c) w feels or is felt by v and (d) v feels or is felt by y. or (5)(and so forth).

He therefore relates openly to the charismatic tradition, participates in Vatican dialogues with the Pentecostals, and so forth.

In this edited volume, McClosky has included a vast number of case studies written by teachers of their experiences using drama, simulation techniques, filmmaking, literature related to social values and ethnic issues, and so forth.

Reverend, Pastor, Minister, so on and so forth are all old fashioned.

Her real concern seemed to be to reprimand the liberal audience and prevent them from being distracted from what really matters, which is race, gender, sexual identity, and so forth.

Most American Christians today are indistinguishable from their unbelieving neighbors in dress, housing, professional vocations, entertainment choices, parenting styles and so forth.

They are working the problem backwards as well as they can, and have come up with all of the mathematics required for the protons, electrons, etc and the formation of atoms and so forth.

Still others have blamed the persistent racism of Southern religion, the cultural captivity of Southern regionalism, the eschatological pessimism of premillennialist ideology, right «wing conspiracy theories, and so forth: There is no shortage of explanations.

Everything in God's creation is interrelated, and one can not separate protection of the environment from protection of humanity: Again citing Benedict, Francis observes that «the world can not be analyzed by isolating only one of its aspects, since «the book of nature is one and indivisible,» and includes the environment, life, sexuality, the family, social relations, and so forth.»

We had no trouble expanding those days to geological epochs, and so forth.

I do the best dog - and - pony show I know how to do, not only to make that point of view as clear as I can but exciting with vignettes from the history of biblical scholarship, the conflicts, and so forth.

It's a collection of stories handed through generations, finally written and rewritten countless times, changed by scribes to fit their own preconceived ideas, and so forth.

Jesus really was born of a virgin, really did walk on the water, really did multiply loaves, and so forth.

He encouraged aesthetics not just in conventional forms, but also in carving and modeling, dance, music, literature, decorative arts, bookbinding, dress making and so forth.

And being good meant trying to live in accord with the ethical teaching of scripture, whether that was understood as a narrow and highly specific code of righteousness, or more generally as following important principles such as the golden rule, loving your neighbor as yourself, and so forth.

In many situations it is inevitable due to the course of discussion that I need to explain who a Christian is, and so on and so forth.

The interest may be to convey to students a certain range of information, or to cultivate in students certain capacities for research, or to «form» students in certain ways, or to advance the instructor's research agenda, and so forth.

This means that, despite all justified, even necessary criticism of the Church, the behaviour of her ministers and so forth, we must nevertheless always realize that we ourselves are this Church.

In the Summa Theologiae, Aquinas does not mean to say that natural law is shared by all animals including human beings» the natural law, as the «participation of the eternal law in the rational creature,» pertains only to human beings (I - II, 91.2)» but that natural law includes natural inclinations shared by other animals, «such as sexual intercourse, education of offspring, and so forth.»

That doesn't mean, however, that there aren't truths to be found in other religions — insights on the spiritual life, ways of praying, and so forth.

We could discuss that work that is being done in response to the Holocaust, that which is being done in the horizon of world religions, that which is being done as an expression of the experience of oppression, as by Blacks, and so forth.

In the case of the individual living bona fide in invincible error, moral theologians have worked out useful principles which make life easier regarding the practice of the confessional, admission to the sacraments and so forth.

These are families in which pressures such as loss of job, ill health, in - laws moving in, and so forth, have knocked the marriage off balance.

Of course, this is where the only thing you can cite are statistics about higher levels of promiscuity, drug use, depression and so forth amongst gay people.

This applies especially to those «private» prayers which are nevertheless recommended and regulated by the Church such as the rosary, approved litanies, prayers enriched with indulgences, episcopally approved devotions and so forth.

The Council wants both sexes to cooperate responsibly in this culture, and men and women of all social classes as well as all nations, whether rich or poor, to have as active a share in it as possible through education, means of communication, tourism and so forth.

But unless laymen themselves patiently seek such a dialogue with their parish priests, their bishops and so forth, it will not happen.

their reasons for believing rely on what they have been taught by another, and that person from someone else, and so forth; so you just have to push it back, did the person who taught the martyr have good reason.

Communication at a distance, by email, telephone and so forth, is valuable, but it is no substitute for meeting someone in person.

A relatively small percentage of those who seek pastoral help come because of overt «religious problems» — problems of belief, doubt, prayer, and so forth.

Violence — in general — is ceaseless and brutal, so too is greed, and so too is prejudice, and so on and so forth, that is just what we observe.